United States or Slovenia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Ay, and holding a very earnest conversation with her, to judge from his attitude," said Charlie. "Probably inquiring into the market-price of steers or some absorbing topic of that sort." "He's grasping her hand now!" exclaimed Shank, with an expanding mouth. "And she lets him hold it. Really this becomes interesting," observed Charlie, with gravity.
He'd never have started away; and he'd never have tried to get away. For love never faileth. A heart the real thing of a heart, that is, God's heart never lets go. It breaks; but let go? not once: never yet. The breaking only loosens the red that glues fast with a tighter hold than ever. The fibre of the heart God's heart is made of too strong stuff to loosen or wear out or snap.
A twenty years' convict who has escaped and lets himself be caught again may give a false name, and avoid all incriminating answers through a convenient failure of memory. If not detected, he may in this way get off with a five years' sentence as a vagrant. But if detected his last lot is worse than his first, since the time he has already served goes for nothing.
"You beat down the price; sir, we shall not differ," and in hopes of your custom another time, lets you have it as reasonable as you please; "And pray send as many of your acquaintance as you will; I shall upon your account furnish them all at the same rate."
But Scheffer shows that the Lapp experts try, voluntarily, to see sights, whereas, except when wrapped in a bull's hide of old, or cowering in a boiler at the present day, the Highland second-sighted man lets his visions come to him spontaneously and uninvoked.
The drummer is discharged because, competition having disappeared, custom must come without solicitation. Consolidation lets out swarms of employees of the individual concerns consolidated, for it is nearly as easy to conduct one large concern as a dozen smaller ones. These people get great sympathy from the public and the newspapers and their case is obviously pitiable.
Couldn't rent animals like them. He lets me take them out for exercise sometimes. If they ain't exercised regular they're a handful. Look at King, there, prancin'. Some style, eh? Some style! The other one's the real goods, though. Prince is his name. Got to have some bit on him to hold'm. Ah! Would you? Did you see'm, Saxon? Some horse! Some horse!"
There are moments when a shipwrecked man, tired of swimming, not knowing to which side to direct his course, without light, without guide, at the end of strength and hope, floats on his back and lets himself be tossed by the waves, to rest and wait for light. This was his case; he could do nothing but wait.
But it only gave form and voice to the national spirit, and 'the people loved to have it so. National responsibilities are not to be slipped out of by being shifted on to the broad shoulders of governments or influential men. Who lets them be governments and influential? 'Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God will send the bill to you.
And so he is going to see her just as soon as the lumbago lets him up out of bed. Well, Josie O'Gorman, it looks as though you would have to change jobs again." From the postoffice Josie went to a ticket office.
Word Of The Day